Book Reviews
‘I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine’ Thinking of music as a balm isn’t a new concept. There have been numerous articles and quips and even songs [...]
Read More →‘I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine’ Thinking of music as a balm isn’t a new concept. There have been numerous articles and quips and even songs [...]
Read More →‘That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America’ Book banning is an appalling stain on our society, and this book is a light, showing just how much damage it [...]
Read More →‘Blood Over Bright Haven’ Intent versus impact. Does it matter if the result causes harm? Somehow, both compulsively readable and deeply philosophical, I was completely consumed by this book to [...]
Read More →‘A Haunted Girl’ Over the last decade or so, mental health and its importance has been a balm for anyone with a chemical imbalance. Understanding and empathy have vastly improved [...]
Read More →‘A Sorceress Comes to Call’ Fairy tales are supposed to teach us things. Sometimes trite truisms like not telling lies, other times the tales are meant more as a warning, [...]
Read More →‘The Daughters’ War’ To be perfectly clear before we start, this is a book about grief. It is a story of loss and war and lives cut short in the [...]
Read More →‘Rakesfall’ There’s a school of thought that there are only a handful of stories in the world, and everything else is just a retelling or mishmash of those few tales. [...]
Read More →‘Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos’ I love space. I follow all the launches, the probes, the landers on Mars; I can’t get enough of [...]
Read More →‘Diavola’ Family drama with all of its undercurrents and toxicity is not a new concept for a book, but mixing that particular brand of unsettling anxiety with the slow dread [...]
Read More →‘An Education in Malice’ Is it weird that I wish I had been sent away to boarding school? I’ve read so many books about people having strange and fantastic adventures [...]
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